Title page, dedication (dated 1748) etched and included in plate count

Title of 1748 ed.: Antichità romane de' tempi della Repubblica e de' primi imperatori with title of pt. 2: Antichità romane fuori di Roma ... Parte seconda (included in this ed. as well)

Described by Hind as renumbered from 1748 ed. In library's copy the plates have the earlier numbers and order but the additional plates of later eds. are included: Arco di Aosta and Tempio di Minerva Medica (the latter by Francesco Piranesi). Some plates numbered by pen

Hind, A.M. Piranesi

Sloan candidate

Library's copy with: Piranesi's Opere varie di architettura prospettive grotteschi antichità sul gusto degli antichi romani, Rome, ca. 1761. Shelved as RARE OVERSIZE 90-B18303 v.1

Library's copy with bookplate of Carl Bonde, said to be a gift to Bonde of Gustavus III or IV, the former a patron of Francesco Piranesi

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